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On this day in queerstory: Fighting for equality in Australia

January 26 shows up in queer history as a day of collision—between visibility and repression, recognition and refusal. It’s a date that repeatedly lands in moments where states, courts, and institutions are forced to react to queer lives already in motion. On January 26, 1973, the American Psychiatric Association formally adopted its decision to remove […]

On this day in queerstory: US customs scans imports for queer literature

January 25 has a habit of turning queer existence into something official. Not symbolic. Not theoretical. Filed, recorded, logged, argued over. It’s a date that shows up in registries, court calendars, and cultural archives—places where denial becomes harder to maintain. On January 25, 1755, Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin. A pioneering naturalist and […]

On this day in queerstory: challenges to Pride bans in Poland

January 24 is a date where queer life leaks out of the spaces it was supposed to stay confined to. Bedrooms become court cases. Art becomes evidence. People are born who will later turn private survival into public confrontation. On January 24, 1911, Marguerite Yourcenar was born in Brussels. She would go on to become […]

On this day in queerstory: Virginia Woolf is born

January 23 tends to be the day when queer life spills fully into view. Art refuses subtlety, courts are forced to clarify, and people are born who will later make privacy impossible. This is a date where queerness stops negotiating quietly and starts insisting on space. On January 23, 1897, Virginia Woolf was born in […]

On this day in queerstory: courtrooms move toward change, Loudon Wainwright Jr born

January 22 doesn’t belong to one lane. It shows up in galleries and courtrooms, in birth records and legal dockets. It’s a date where culture provokes, the law reacts, and people arrive who will later complicate everything. On January 22, 1561, Francis Bacon was born in London. While history has mostly remembered him as a […]

On this day in queerstory: Sylvia Rivera is born

January 21 is a date where institutions move and individuals arrive. Laws shift, cases land, and—quietly but significantly—people are born who will later give those systems hell. This is a day where structure meets flesh. On January 21, 1924, Bobby Griffith was born in the United States. While his name would not become widely known […]